 Keyboard labels have been carefully designed for Cyrillic languages. Here's some background info on the alphabet. Cyrillic alphabet is used to write six natural Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) and many other languages of the former USSR, Asia and Eastern Europe. For instance, Turkic languages where Cyrillic is being used are Tatar, Azeri (until 91), Uzbek (until 98), Turkmen (until 94), Kazakh, Gagauz, Kyrgyz. The alphabet structure is based on the Early Cyrillic alphabet, that was inherited from the Glagolitic alphabet, an uncial cursive designed by brothers Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in mid 9th century. A range of Cyrillic symbols were adopted from existing Medieval Byzantine Greek letters. Cyrillic alphabet experienced additions of the entirely new letter shapes in contrast of Latin alphabet where existing letters used accents, tildes, umlauts, and cedillas.
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